Shows: Rome, the legend and metamorphosis of Guzey

"Nato dal fuoco" at Palazzo Cancelleria until June 17

(ANSAmed) - ROME, MAY 31 - Solemn silhouettes, spread across
space and made of charred wooden panels, representing legend and
metamorphosis, provide a continuing reminder of classicism.
This is the spirit that surrounds the work of the Turkish
artist, Ender Guzey, which are displayed in an exhibition
entitled "Nato del fuoco" (Born of fire), which opens this
evening at Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome.

The exhibition, which has been organised to co-incide with the
40th anniversary of Guzey's activity, provides a visual and
symbolic journey inspired by mythology. "Guzey favours the
original phase in which Gods would err without a motherland and
when the great Zeus is depicted as a beast, a completely
animalistic being," explains the curator, Gino Rossi. The thirty
or so works ensure a conflict between positive and negative,
between the empty and the full.

Born in Istanbul in 1951, Guzey trained as a painter and
sculptor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, and has
held exhibitions in Germany, Turkey, Holland, Malaysia, Greece
and France, among other countries. His 40 years of activity have
allowed him to occupy a prime position in the analysis of the
evolution of Turkey's artistic landscape. "Since the 1960s there
have been very few galleries in Turkey, and the foreign ones
were little known in the country," Guzey tells ANSAmed. The last
ten years, however, have made a difference. "Today contemporary
Turkish artists are internationally renowned and the major
foreign galleries have a presence in Turkey, especially in
Istanbul, where the Biennale has allowed our artists to gain
even greater recognition from foreign audiences". The exhibition
runs until June 17.(ANSAmed).